Saturday, 29 January 2011

We had two newbies join us for the month.......... thanks to Kim and Tamara

I will pop February's inspiration up shortly so you can all get a feel for the painting and Artist. Great art piece for January and I found it very inspiring. The Design Team have put together some fantastic layouts to share, I will add them to the blog shortly.

Don't forget to make 2011 your best scrapping year ever!!

Maybe you could make it your News Years Scrapping Resolution to join us each month at ARTastic!

Hi there!
Thanks to Michelle Lark for the inspiration to complete this - my first Artastic challenge, after following a link on her blog, and it won't be my last!
I've included all the extra elements - a celebration, LOTS of people, and food (fruit on the journalling tag).
Thanks!
Tamara
princess-tamara.blogspot.com

Hi Tamara! Its lovely to see you join in the month thanks to Michelle Lark :) A beautiful entry......you have captured the theme perfectly. Love the two photos of your family get together. The bright pink flower in thecorner with the ticket stubb is gorgeous.......and I love the journaling especially!! Well done!! - Cheers Shazza

Friday, 28 January 2011

Hello Shazza;0) Here is my LO for the Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir. This is my middle son on his 6th birthday. He is now 7 but I guess better late than never to scrap it, right? Sorry for another late entry. Time seems to pass by right before my eyes..lol I have covered all the criteria and hope you and the DT enjoy my LO. Have a wonderful evening.

Well done Cecelia!! I love this page, I especially love the font in the title and the little journaling stips at the bottom of the photo. Banner is gorgeous and that pp is the best birthday pp I have seen, I just love it!!!! Colors are so soft and serene! Great work!! - Shazza

Hi Shazza,
I think this might be my first entry for Artastic - I have looked at it for so long now, I can't remember whether I have entered or not!!!
This layout is a kind of celebration - a visit to our favourite theme park in Holland! The photo was taken in the museum of the park, unfortunately the food on the table isn't real! The park is themed on fairytales and its a really lovely place.
Thanks
Yolanda

Hi Yolanda! Thanks for joining in this month, with a really great entry! What a great theme park this must be. I love your cartooney style layout, its just awseome and its great to see something a little different. Looks like you have covered all the criteria. Well done...and would love you to enter Artastic challenges again :)

Here’s my Artastic entry for this month. This was more of a challenge than I had anticipated – trying to find an unscrapped photo of more than 3 people, celebrating - and with food - was no easy task but I found something in the end. Wanted to keep this layout simple and also use some pieces from my overflowing scraps basket. It was a fun challenge – thanks for the inspiration.

Jane

Hey Jane!

I love the simplicity of your layout, with the nice neat lines. Glad you found the photo, perfect for this challenge! .....and love the little journaling tag and that flower just tops it off! Great work! - Shazza

Monday, 24 January 2011

"When I saw the 'Renoir' I was immediately drawn to the colours in the painting, among my favourites and the feeling of conversation and eating going on in the group .

I had recently helped a friend, Helen celebrate her 60th birthday with a High Tea @ The Loft, King St. Wharf ,Sydney with a bunch of her 'Scrapbooking' girlfriends.Thanks for the inspiraton to scrap her page. Loved using Basic Grey 'Curio' collection with some handmade turquoise felt embellishments.". and this is my blog address.http://kironee.blogspot.com/ Kironee is a mix of the christian names in my family Wow, so excited I've actually done it, thanks for the site, keep up the great, inspirational work. - Kim

Hi Kim! Thanks for joining in this month its so nice to see a newbie have a go at our challenges. What a great job you have done! Excellent group photo you have used and look at that plate of yummies!!! Love your turquoise felt embellies, they cap off the page nicely. Well done! - Shazza

Friday, 14 January 2011

On the picture you see my niece at her 10 birthday at 23 januari 2010 so its time to scrap this picture...I now just one person but i loved this picture and yes there is food ..yummiefood on the table and its a Party.

Beautiful work again this month Lean, just love your layering and distressing. What a great birthday photo of you niece as she is blowing out the candles! Lovely flower embellishments and love your banner. Well done!! - Cheers Shazza

Here is my take on January’s Challenge. I got to use some of my very Yummy Scrapmatts and based my LO on a sketch at Sketchy Thursday. It was great to do some scrapping to distract me from all the flood stuff. Sometimes we need a good distraction as I can’t stop thinking about all the poor people being inundated by water. Kind of Ironic that you have the movie poster as the “boating party”.

Hi Anne! Thanks for joining in this month with a superb entry! The colors in this layout just stand out so much!! The birthday photos look great and I love how you stitched the word 'Wish'. Love it Anne! - Shazza

Thursday, 13 January 2011

This is my interpretation of Renoir’s painting ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’. When I saw the challenge I immediately thought of one of my daughter’s favorite games – to arrange tea parties for her dolls, teddy bears etc. (Invited to the party but not visible on the photo are also a teddy bear, a monkey and a cat.)

What I like most about the ARTastic’s Callanges is to really take inspiration from the painting. With this painting I wanted to create a little bit nature, an old feeling and a touch of decadence…

I definitely wanted to have a “roof” (like the one in the painting) to help framing the photo and I made this myself with white cardstock, red and yellow pencils and a bit brown Ink on top of it to make it look older.

I hope you enjoy my entry! I really appreciate your work with this site!

Hi Helene! Great job of the artwork this month, love the photo you used of your daughters Tea Party with all her little friends.....just perfect!! Beautiful colorsin this layout. I love your idea of having a roof over the photo. The large antique teapot and sugar bowl in the corner are just beautiful! Great work! Cheers Shazza

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Thanks for the nice, easy challenge this month. I've met all the criteria. My book club meets once a month to discuss the book of the month. In December we meet for dinner to celebrate Christmas. You can see the yummy dessert I had.

If anyone wants to know the ingredients I've used to create this page please see my blog www.daleys-dailies.blogspot.com for that information.

Kind regards,

Dale

Hey Dale! this is a sweet (pun!) little page!! Your dessert looks yummo. A great idea to use your christmas get together with book club for your theme. Great title and lovely pp used here! Well done - Shazza

Hi Shazza,
i have just done the challenge for January..
i have a celebration - my daughters 21st.
i have 3 or more people - my family
i have food - the cake in the bottom corner of the photo..
thanks for inspiring me to scrap my daughters 21st which was

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Hi Shazza, I made this layout after a friend recently got remarried. I went for elegant rather than cluttered as I wanted to fit the 5 photos on the page.It answers all the criteria and the colours are reminiscent of Renoir as it was an afternoon wedding.That cake was delicious! Thanks,Julene Matthews

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Here is my entry, from our Christmas celebration where the 5 siblings and their families got together (all in the same place at the same time) for the first time in 15 years. I have a 'celebration', 'a group of people' and some 'food' (that represents the teenagers.

Looking forward to seeing what the other participants come up with.

Jen Fawkes

Great entry for the challenge Jen. Love the pp's you have used, the stitching and all the little added food embellies.I Love the three different fonts you have used in your title.....and a lovely photo of the cousins you have used. Well done! Cheers Shazza

Sunday, 2 January 2011

I was so excited when you asked me to be a guest DT member, but when I found out the painting would be Luncheon of the Boating Party I was extra excited because I've seen it in real life! I was shocked to discover it is actually a very big painting (over 4 feet tall!).

Diva Demanded a celebration with 3 or more people and food, so I immediately thought of my niece's wedding reception pictures that I still hadn't scrapped from June. They are such a sweet couple! I picked out some polka dot letter stickers to use since I think of Renoir as a "dotty" kind of painter.

Hello everyone! My name is Nicole and I teach first grade. I'm married with 2 fur kids and I live in Arizona.

I started scrapbooking after I went to a Creative Memories party with my sister in 1997. It wasn't until I saw Elsie Flannigan's scrapbook pages in Creating Keepsakes magazine that I had a scrapbooking revolution and discovered my own kind of style. Combined with challenge blogs like ARTastic, Elsie has been a big inspiration. My favorite supplies/addictions are patterned paper and letter stickers, and I love journaling!
We just finished tearing out the carpet and painting my scrapbook room so I'm ready to get scrappin again!
Thank you Shazza for the honor of being a Guest Design Team gal!
XOXO
Nicole

mmmm... food! What a good topic. :O)I decided to scrap the King of all Foodie-Celebrations: Thanksgiving. We always have a veritable herd of family over, on top of the herd that already live under our roof. lolTable laden down with a feast of: ham, turkey, potatoes, turnip, carrots, olives, apples, cranberry sauce, corn relish, pineapples, salad and buns.This is always my eldest son Arthur's favorite part: the food. Though all da boyz kinda hang around, underfoot, as my Mom & I are getting the buffet meal laid out.

Hope all is well with you! Attached is January's submission. Every August, my brother-in-law and his family come to visit my mother-in-law and our family here in Florida. We usually have a barbecue in our backyard, but this year we did something different--we went Japanese! We went to our local restaurant and had a grand time. I had a hard time taking pictures in the restaurant that evening and they are not very clear but I hope I still conveyed the fun we had that evening! I used Studio Calico November kit to create this LO!

This last summer, I had the good fortune to be able to meet two of my all-time favourite scrappers and online friends, Jenneke and Jeanet. We had a lovely time shopping for scrap supplies, talking, laughing and just getting to know each other. We ended off by having dinner together (pics with food!!!). By the end of the day, I felt I had made some new friends! I guess you could say that that day we were celebrating online friendships becoming real life friendships!

Had a lot of fun with this challenge, it is Nate's birthday this month so going back 1 year ago (can you believe a year already) it was his 3rd birthday, so it was only fitting to scrap his day of celebrations, there was several cakes over the course of the day and family in the photos. I hope you like my layout trying a collage. Love Melxx

My layout is called "Sweet". This was a lovely challenge and I thought the extra criteria were fantastic! I scrapped a photo of my girls and my Mum while we celebrated Caitlyn's birthday... she is the one without the crown.I have all of the criteria covered - three people, a celebration and I have food (cupcakes) on the gorgeous Webster's paper. I added some pretty flowers too. I really enjoyed having some time to scrap again! Cheers, Vanilla xxx

hi Shazza, here is my layout using the 'renoir' painting 'luncheon with the boating party'...................i loved that painting, and the added criteria, i chose to use a photo of my boys meeting their great grandfather(my grandfather) for the 1st time in a long time, and that when a great grandparent gets to be in their 80's and beyond then really every day with them is a celebration, and a milestone not to be overlooked......................ive got a celebration pic, more than 3 people in the pic and my food is the icecreams that the boys are eating and even included an ice cream stick pin..................thanks, hope you like this

Saturday, 1 January 2011

Hi Everyone!The votes are in and I can now announce our winners for the month. Thankyou to all the ladies that participated, I loved looking through all the entries in the one blog. You have all done an outstanding Job :)

We had 11 entries for the month, unfortunately two entries came in after the deadline. We had two newbies, Jessica Wyllie and Helene Bogren.Thanks everyone for taking the time to submit your entries, we love seeing all the different art work each month :)

......................so without further ado.....

The Picture This winner for December is

Lizzy Crust

with her entry

The Angel and the Shepherd Boy

Congratulations Lizzy!

You have won the Christmas Scrap Pack from 'Old Favourtie Vintage Supplies'

Reason - Jessica did a marvelous job of the challenge. I love how she just added a roof to her photo to iminate a stable. Well done!

You have won the 'Honey and Hugs' Docrafts Pack :)

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The winner of the Randon Draw prize

donated by DT member Deb Clark

has been won by

Nicole

With her entry

BARN

Congrats Nicole - you have won a RAk of goodies!

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The Guest DT Rak

donated by Peg Hewitt

(and picked by Peg herself)

has been won by

Julene Matthews

with her entry

'I believe in Angels'

Congrat! Julene!! you have won a swag of goodies!

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The DT sub vote goes to

Melissa O'Neill

with her submission

Four Years Ago a Child was Born

Congrats Melissa, you have won a rak from me

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HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!!

Well another month out the way....and now on to January 2011r!!!!A big thankyou to all the December sponsors,your donations are much appreciated by all of us at ARTasticSPONSORS for NovemberA2Z scrapletsOld Favourites Vintage suppliesPeg Hewitt - Guest Dt RAKDeb Clark - RAK of goodies'Curators Choice' Award and 'Picture This' Runner UP! prizes donated by Shazza

********************************Thankyou to all the ladies that took the time to enter this month,Thankyou to Peg for being our Guest DT for the month, and adding some great comments to the entries during the month.

Thankyou to my DT members, who submitt the most inspiring work

We hope to see you all back again with some great entries for our 'Lucheon of the boating Party by Renoir

Could all the winners please email me their home addresses to:shazzaalleyes@hotmail.comso I can get all your prizes organised :)

Apologies - I'm having computer problems with my network connection so this post has been hurried to get uploaded, - I will add the prizes tomorrow if all is well!

February random draw prize

2nd random draw prize

JANUARY inspiration is Beach Scene by Arthur Streeton

JANUARY entries

JANUARY Prize

JANUARY second prize - if more than 8 entries

Donated by Karen McLaughlin

December 2nd random draw prize

If more than 8 entries

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